Zimnie dvortsy Petra I. Arkhitektura i khudozhestvennoe ubranstvo. Sobytiia i liudi (Peter I’s Winter Palaces: architecture and decoration, events and people)
St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo sankt-peterburgskogo universiteta, 2002. Sewn cl. One of Russia’s most famous buildings, Rastrelli’s mid eighteenth-century Winter Palace, the tsar’s residence until 1917, was built on the foundations early eighteenth-century structures built for the founder of St. Petersburg himself. Peter the Great’s Western European collaborators designed the first imperial..... More